About Juno

Juno is a global, open source, permission-less network for decentralized interoperable applications.

Anyone can create & use inter-chain applications on Juno. The ecosystem is pioneering CosmWasm development and adoption, allowing developers to deploy secure & robust inter-chain smart contracts in Rust. The Juno proof of stake blockchain is built using the Cosmos SDK and reaches network agreement via Tendermint Consensus.

With 50+ dapps, contracts, tools, NFT collections, and 2,000+ DAOs built on the network, Juno serves as a cross-chain smart contract hub for the Cosmos Ecosystem.

How is Lava supporting Juno?

Developers on our private testnet will now be able to access a Juno RPC endpoint supported by Lava Protocol. Juno RPC endpoints are used by developers to fetch data from Juno, without needing to run their own nodes, use rate-limited public endpoints or rely on centralized providers.

Here’s a sneak peek of how developers are able to generate a Juno RPC endpoint within the Lava Gateway. In the future, Lava will facilitate RPC access through a permissionless, open-source SDK:

We are onboarding developers and you can apply for our testnet now via our Discord.

The benefits of Lava RPC

By decentralizing RPC, Lava offers many benefits for developers:

• Decentralized redundancy for high uptime - By being connected to multiple leading RPC providers, apps benefit from 99.99% uptime. The protocol also rewards providers according to their latency, freshness, and availability.
• Open-Source - Lava is open-source and transparent, shortening the procurement process for apps looking to integrate. Anyone can also contribute to the protocol and the appchain, so developers can verify that the network is secure and reliable.
• Private relays -  Relay requests are routed per epoch to a random and constantly shuffled list of providers, so any user RPC queries going through the network cannot be profiled.
• Maximum Scalability - Lava incentivizes network redundancy and runs on a highly scalable appchain, so your app can handle high periods of traffic.
• Consensus-Based Data Integrity - Data accuracy, consistency and freshness are preserved by a consensus mechanism which detects and resolves conflicts. Poor service or attempts to manipulate data are caught and disincentivized, with providers staking and signing responses so that they can held accountable.
• Any Chain, Any API - Change your configuration to access any chain and any API served by the network.